Iraqi and American intelligence officials say the Islamic State group is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region.

Islamic State's official magazine carried a photo on Wednesday of what it said was the improvised bomb that brought down the Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.

Islamic State (ISIS) and families of leading members have started relocating from Syria's Raqqa to Mosul in Iraq, Syria Monitor group said.

Saudi Arabia's harsh religious tradition is seen by many outsiders — and some Saudi liberals — as a root cause of the international jihadist threat that has inflamed the Middle East for years and struck in Paris last week.

Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta created a Facebook page entitled “Not in the name of Muslims” as part of their initiative to tackle Islamophobia in the West, following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and the Russian plane crash.

Two suspected jihadists were killed, including a woman who blew herself up, in a shootout Wednesday in north Paris with police hunting the mastermind of last week's attacks on the French capital, sources said.

British Prime Minster David Cameron said on Tuesday he will set out a comprehensive strategy for tackling Islamic State militants, including why he believes the country should join international airstrikes against the group in Syria.

Russia Tuesday staged a "significant number" of air strikes on the Islamic State group stronghold of Raqa in Syria, a US defense official said.

The Great Mosque of Paris urged French Muslims on Tuesday to gather at the country's most important mosque Friday to say "No to terror" and "We are all Paris!".

German police in the western city of Aachen have arrested two women and one man in an operation linked to the attacks last Friday in Paris which killed at least 129 people, the police said on Tuesday.

A fire broke out by unknown assailants in Al-Salaam Mosque located in Ontario, Canada on Sunday; no injuries or deaths were reported.

Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.

Tanta University’s challenge against the ruling allowing female students to take exams with their niqab, an Islamic face veil, was rejected by the Administrative Court Monday, Youm7 reported.

WASHINGTON: he United States and its allies conducted 23 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released on Monday.

Egyptian security forces shot dead 24 Islamic State militants in central Sinai, 70 km from the crash site of the Russian passenger plane the group claimed it brought down, security sources said on Monday.

Nour Party member and a candidate in the current parliamentary elections, Emad El-Mahdy, was stabbed infront of his campaign headquarters in Egypt's Sharqiya governorate, the Facebook page of the candidate said.

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced militant Adel Habara to death on Saturday, alongside six others in a retrial for the killing of 25 soldiers in Rafah in North Sinai in August 2013.

The Port Said Criminal Court postponed Sunday the trial of 51 defendants in the case known as the “Port Said prison clashes” to Monday, to continue hearing defence witnesses.

The Muslim organization said it "categorically condemns the multiple terrorist attacks and mourns the loss of and expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the victims". I wonder if they have developed a few cynicism about all the claims made about who and what the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects. Iranian officials were quick to criticize the Islamic State group, which took credit for the attacks, urging for the global community to stand together against the extremist group. Many have also objected to the term "Muslim terrorists", although others argue that it's appropriate. A few enterprising Twitter users even posted an excerpt from the Quran, which proves that Muslims are not terrorists by condemning violence.

ISIS claims of responsibility for Friday’s Paris massacre are being reviewed by US intelligence analysts Sunday morning, with a focus on the English-language version, which is delivered in American-accented English, Fox News has been told. It is now clear the plot included a rollout of ISIS propaganda, which was prepared in advance, including threats directed toward the Russian people, Rome, London and Washington DC.

Egypt will light up the Great Pyramids of Giza with the colours of the French and Russian flags on Sunday night at 9:30 pm local time, as decided by the Ministries of Tourism and Antiquities, state-run media MENA reported Saturday.